Letters to the Editor

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THE carbon footprint, health and general well-being, especially of older folk on Alston Moor, are being threatened by the need to drive between six to seven hundred miles a week to and from Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, in order to visit sick relatives and friends.

HOW timely that our attention was drawn (Herald, 4th May) by Geoffrey Graham to the shameless behaviour of some of our MPs in terms of their failure to progress the Brexit/Leave vote while pocketing handsome expenses and a comfortable salary.

IN the last week, voters in Eden elected their first Green councillors, the UK Parliament became the first in the world to declare a climate emergency, Rory Stewart offered an unequivocal recognition of that emergency (“Word from Westminster”, 4th May) and 10 of the signatories to the letter (Herald, 29th April) pledging to call for a climate emergency motion in Eden became members of Eden District Council.

LIKE many voters, I am distressed by the political impasse over Brexit. The Conservatives have drifted further to the right and the Labour Party have become more left wing, leaving little representation in the middle where the best interests of the country lie.

RORY Stewart MP is the latest representative of the Appleby constituency (now known as Penrith and the Border) to have achieved extraordinary distinction in high political office with his elevation to cabinet rank and the Privy Council.

WHILE it is certain that some of the voters in the constituency may be basking in the reflected glory of seeing another local MP elevated to a senior post in a Conservative Party government (Herald, 4th May), I suspect there may be more than a few who wonder why their MP is so determined to ignore the crucial components of the manifesto on which he was re-elected in 2017.

CLIMATE change has been a favourite subject for letter writers to the Herald (see especially 27th April). It is now clear to the majority that global warming caused by mankind is a major threat, that hitherto little has been done to counteract it and that tinkering is unlikely to avert an environmental Armageddon.

IT seems like the world spins round on opinions — some say the world was formed 4,000 years ago; some doubt man has landed on the Moon; some say the world is flat; some deny the Holocaust. We have information and data on everything and that includes misinformation as well as false news.

WITH regard to Paul Dunford’s letter (Herald, 27th April) complaining about finding litter at Sunbiggin Tarn, a more remote and beautiful place than anyone could wish to happen on, it will come as no surprise to anyone who traverses this wonderful country of ours that discarded rubbish can be, and will be, found everywhere and anywhere from Land’s End to Cape Wrath.